Establishment data for all National series have been adjusted to Employment estimates for industries not published monthly (page 17). Page CONTENTS Summary Employment and Unemployment Developments, May 1968 BLS Establishment Employment Estimates Revised to March 1967 Benchmark Levels Statistical Tables 6 11 25 25 A- 1: Employment status of the noninstitutional population, 1929 to date A- 2: Employment status of the noninstitutional population 16 years and over by sex, 1947 to date A- 3: Employment status of the noninstitutional population by age, sex, and color 26 27 29 A- 4: 31 A- 5: 31 32 Labor force by age, sex, and color Employment status of persons 16-21 years of age in the noninstitutional population by color and sex A- 6: Employment status of the noninstitutional population 16 years and over by color, age, and sex A- 7: Full- and part-time status of the civilian labor force by age and sex A- 8: Unemployed persons by age and sex Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment, sex, age, and color Unemployed persons by duration of unemployment Unemployed persons by duration, sex, age, color, and marital status 33 33 34 34 35 A-12: 35 A-13: A-18: Employed persons by occupation group, age, and sex 43 A-25: 45 Employed persons with a job but not at work by reason, pay status, and sex Persons at work by type of industry and hours of work Persons at work 1-34 hours by usual status and reason working Nonagricultural workers by full- or part-time status Persons at work in nonagricultural industries by full- or part-time status, age, sex, color, and marital status A-26: Persons at work in nonfarm occupations by full- or part-time status and sex Data on 14 and 15 Year-olds A-29: Employment status of the noninstitutional population by age and sex, Employment status by color, sex, and age, seasonally adjusted 48 49 A-30: 50 A-31: 51 52 A-33: Rates of unemployment by age and sex, seasonally adjusted adjusted 53 54 62 National B-1: Employees on nonagricultural payrolls, by industry division, 1919 to date B-2: Employees on nonagricultural payrolls, by industry B-3: Women employees on nonagricultural payrolls, by industry B-4: Indexes of employment on nonagricultural payrolls, by industry division, 1919 to date, monthly data seasonally adjusted 63 B-5: Employees on nonagricultural payrolls, by industry, seasonally adjusted 64 B-6: Production workers in industrial and construction activities, 66 seasonally adjusted State and Area B-7: Employees on nonagricultural payrolls for States and selected areas, by industry division SECTION C-HOURS AND EARNINGS ESTABLISHMENT DATA National 77 C-1: Gross hours and earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers on private nonagricultural payrolls, 1947 to date Gross hours and earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers on private nonagricultural payrolls, by industry C-3: Employment, hours, and indexes of earnings in the Executive Branch of the Federal Government 78 90 90 91 91 92 93 C-4: Average hourly earnings excluding overtime of production workers on manufacturing payrolls, by industry C-5: Gross and spendable average weekly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers on private nonagricultural payrolls, in current and 1957-59 dollars C-6: Indexes of aggregate weekly man-hours and payrolls in industrial and C-7: Average weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers State and Area 94 C-9: Gross hours and earnings of production workers on manufacturing payrolls, by State and selected areas SECTION D-LABOR TURNOVER ESTABLISHMENT DATA 98 99 D-1: Labor turnover rates in manufacturing, 1958 to date National 104 105 D-3: Labor turnover rates in manufacturing, by sex and major industry D-4: Labor turnover rates in manufacturing, 1958 to date, seasonally adjusted 1 State and Area D-5: Labor turnover rates in manufacturing for selected States and areas SECTION E-UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE DATA 108 E-1: Insured unemployment under State programs Developments, May 1968 Employment showed continued strength in May, and the unemployment rate remained at 3.5 percent for the second consecutive month. Payroll Employment At 67.8 million, nonfarm payroll employment (seasonally adjusted) was unchanged from the previous month, although there were about 100,000 more workers off payrolls in May because they were on strike. Employment increases of about 40,000 each in services and State and local government were more than offset by strike-related declines in the construction and telephone industries. Employment in manufacturing and trade remained practically at the same level. Over the year, employment showed a strong recovery in the manufacturing industries, which had inventory problems in early 1967. The longrun shift of employment toward the serviceproducing industries has continued, however. About four-fifths of the 2.1 million year-to-year increase in payroll employment was accounted for by trade (470,000), finance (130,000), services (460,000), and government (620,000). Only onefifth of the increase was in manufacturing (320,000) and construction (90,000), which account for about one-third of payroll employment. About one-half of the year-to-year employment increase in services was in the medical and health field, while practically all of the increase in government employment was in the State and local sector. Unemployment The number of unemployed workers was 2.3 million in May. The total unemployment rate, at 3.5 percent, was unchanged and equal to the postKorean low of January. The jobless rate has remained between 3.5 and 3.7 percent for the last 6 months, the lowest sustained unemployment rate since late 1953. Over the month, jobless rates remained the same for adult men (2.1 percent) and adult women (3.7 percent) but edged up to 12.6 percent for teenagers. The unemployment rate for married men was 1.6 percent in May. Total unemployment dropped by about 150,000 over the year, with declines of 100,000 for adult men and 50,000 for adult women. The unemployment rate for adult men declined from 2.4 to 2.1 percent and for adult women from 4.1 to 3.7 percent. For teenagers, both the level and rate of unemployment were virtuallly unchanged from a year ago. Unemployment reductions since the first half of 1967 have been concentrated among blue-collar workers in the goods-producing industries, particularly in durable goods manufacturing. For all blue-collar workers, the unemployment rate averaged 3.8 percent in April and May, about equal to the lows of the Korean period. The nonwhite unemployment rate (seasonally adjusted) was 6.4 percent in May, twice as high as the white rate (3.2 percent). This ratio has held fairly constant for the past 15 years. The number of workers unemployed 15 weeks or more averaged 400,000 in both April and May on a seasonally adjusted basis, down 60,000 from the first quarter. The long-term jobless group accounted for 0.5 percent of the labor force, its lowest proportion since late 1953. State insured unemployment (seasonally adjusted) was 1.1 million in May, virtually unchanged from April. At 2.2 percent, the insured unemployment rate matched that for April but was down sharply from 2.7 percent in May 1967. Compared with a year ago, all but six States showed lower levels of insured unemployment. Hours and Earnings In manufacturing, the seasonally adjusted workweek was up 0.6 hour to 40.6, recovering from the sharp drop of the previous month, which was attributable to religious observances and civil |